Shirt-waist.



PATBNTBD MAR. 31,1903.- A. LEVI.

SHIRT WAIST.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 31, 1902.

`N0 MODEL.

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ABRAHAM LEVI, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MAX LEVI, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SHIRT-WAIST.

SPECIHCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,301, dated March 31, 1903.

Application tiled December 3l, 1902. Serial No. 137,271. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, ABRAHAM LEVI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Waists, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shirt-waists, and has for its object to reinforce the waist about the waistband where the buttons are secured for holding the trousers.

Shirt-waists are in a large percentage of instances made of light material having an exterior band stitched thereto, and the buttons for holding` the trousers are usually secured to said exterior band andthe material of the waist. While this construction adds considerably to the strength of the garment about the waistband, it is not satisfactory, and the garments tear and the buttons pull out.

The object, therefore, of this invention is to provide a reinforce construction about the waistband which will strengthen the garment and prevent tearing and the pulling out of The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrating a perspective view of a shirt-waist having a waistband of my improved construction; Fig. 2, an enlarged sectional view of a portion of the waist material and reinforcing-bands 3 Fig. 3, an enlarged det-ail' View of the inner band, and Fig. 4 an enlarged vertical section through the inner and outer bands and waist material.

In the drawings, A designates a conventional shirt-waist, the'body, sleeve, and collarV portions of which may be of any suitable style or construction. waist on the exterior thereof and near the lower edge is a band a, preferably made of the same material as the waist, and on the interior the body portion of said wa'ist is provided with a band b of some suitable coarse and strong fabric. The band l) on the interior is wider than the band a on the exterior, and the two bands are secured together by two rows of stitches c, which extend along the edges of the smaller exterior band,through the material of the waist, and then through the wider interior band.

Buttons d for'engagement with the trousers Secured to the body of the.

are secured to the waist in the present instance by rivets CZ', which latter are provided on their inner ends with heads d2, which take against the interiorband. When the trousers are secured to the buttons, the strain on the latter tends tovpull the buttons out, and this strain draws the rivet-heads d2 against the interior band b, so that the strain or pull on the buttons is resisted entirely by the interior band of coarse material. The outer band, therefore, is entirely relieved of strain.

Y It has been stated that the interior band is wider than the exterior band, also that the interior band relieves the exterior band of the strain or pull on the buttons, and, further,that the Stitching through the outer band is close to the edge of the latter.

When stitchingthe bands together through the waist material, the stitches c must be made close to the edges a of the exterior band, so as to prevent the formation of a fold or plait along the edge of the band on the exterior of the shirt-waist. Now if the inner band were made the same width as the outer band the rows of stitches c would also extend in a parallel direction close to the edge of the inner band, and as the strain on the buttons is resisted entirely by the latter band the stitches, being close to the edges, would be liable to pull through the material. Therefore by making the inner band wider than the outer hand the stitches c through the inner band are made away from the edges and have a permanent hold on the material of the inner band, thus leaving a marginal edge e along the fabric outside of the stitches.

It is obvious that the buttons may be of a detachable construction, so that they may be removed when the waist is put in the laundry.

I am aware that heretofore it has been proposed to provide a shirt-waist with a detachable inner band of strong fabric, to which the buttons are secured, and to provide the outer Aband with a series of buttonholes or slots for the buttons on the inner band to project through. This construction, however, fails to overcome the trouble, as the strain comes on the buttonholes and the latter give away and tear. By the present invention,

the waist being provided with an exterior band and a reinforce interior band, both of I the interior, the interior band being Wider which are stitched together through the Waist than the exterior band and both of said bands being secured together through the garment fabric by stitches, said stitches passing along the edges of the exterior band but spaced from the edge of the interior band.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ABRAHAM LEVI. Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jin, FREDERICK S. STITT. 

